"The Wizard of Oz meets Star Wars…Why don't we have more YA space operas like this? Cat Lyons gives us characters who leap off the page and a plot that keeps readers guessing. A story for all ages and genders, this one is sure to please."
--Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool

★The first YA Science Fiction title from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author CJ Lyons, written under the pen name Cat Lyons.
★CJ/Cat' novels have twice won International Thriller Award, RT Reviewers' Choice Award, RT Seal of Excellence, Readers' Choice Award, Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense.
★Over 2.5 million copies of her works sold to date!

16 year old Annie McCoy always looks out for her autistic 12 year old little brother, Nate. It’s what any ordinary big sister would do—and, unlike her extraordinary brother and parents, Annie is average with a capital normal.

Then comes the morning when Nate runs out into the street right into the path of a school bus and Annie chases after him. Time freezes for a moment as the possibilities spin out before Annie. As if she can control the future. Making her choice, she steps into the bus’s path and sacrifices herself to save Nate.

Imagine her surprise when she wakes in a world a lot like her own, but definitely not. She’s nowhere near Scotia, PA, instead she’s in a Las Vegas where the fashion is hopelessly retro and the tech is absolutely futuristic. A boy named N-8 who looks exactly like Nate tells her he summoned her here to Unity on the orders of the Delphi quantum computer that runs this world.

According to N-8, she’s here to save the world before Time itself collapses. All she needs to do is steal the Delphi Key and take control of the quantcomp.

Annie refuses to believe that anyone as average as she is could be a Chosen One. Instead, she focuses on saving N-8 and the other autistic children who have been enslaved by the leader of this strange new world: Comptroller Franco Albanese who wields the Delphi Key.

Determined to once again save her little brother—or his incarnation in this strange alternative universe—Annie must find the courage to break out of her ordinary life and embrace her new one before it’s too late.

Cat Lyons

Cat Lyons is the fun "little sister" pen name of award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author CJ Lyons. Both have been storytellers as long as they can remember. CJ/Cat wrote her first fantasy novel when she was fifteen followed by two science fiction novels while in med school. Her two contemporary YA thrillers (Broken and Watched) both received critical acclaim and won several awards. Under Cat's name you'll find everything from Science Fiction to contemporary suspense...not as dark as CJ but just as edgy and filled with the "heart" that sets CJ's "Thrillers with Heart" apart from other books.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over forty novels, former pediatric ER doctor CJ/Cat Lyons has lived the life she writes about in her cutting edge Thrillers with Heart.

Her novels have twice won the International Thriller Writers prestigious Thriller Award, the RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, Golden Gateway, Readers’ Choice Award for Best First Novel, the RT Seal of Excellence, and Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense.

CJ/Cat has been called a “master within the genre” (Pittsburgh Magazine) and her work has been praised as “breathtakingly fast-paced” and “riveting” (Publishers Weekly) with “characters with beating hearts and three dimensions” (Newsday).